Sentences with phrase «on mythic stories»
Drawing on mythic stories from various cultures, Jonas invests texts from the past with the politics of the present.
https://art21.org/ Not exact matches
The story of the Paskowitz clan has taken on mythic proportions in the surfing community, and with reason.
The rumors concern what's in a supposedly forthcoming story in The New York Times that has taken on almost mythic dimensions before it has even run.
«What Hugh said to you is the attitude we all have — myself, Lauren Shuler Donner, the studio, [director] James Mangold, Hutch Parker — all of us, feel like this is six or seven or eight (depending on how you count) movies in the making, and there are few characters in the history of cinema who have cast as big a shadow as Wolverine, so to tell the final chapter of that story, it has to be the best, and it has to have a mythic quality to it.
Re-teaming with Nick Cave, who was also behind the script for Hillcoat's debut «Ghosts... of the Civil Dead,» the story takes on the mythic qualities of some of Cave's best work, helped in no small part by his score with fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis — probably our favorite of the musician's film work.
Written by Meg LeFauve, with her, Sohn, and others credited on story, The Good Dinosaur features the most mundane narrative of any Pixar film — mundane because it so blatantly aspires to mythic resonance.
According to Jessica Kiang's review, his journey takes on «an almost mythic resonance,» the film walking «the line between realism and metaphor so well that the story feels utterly authentic to its claustrophobic setting, and yet broader, more sweeping, more universal too.»
An almost mythic story, excellent performances and a setting — the Missouri Ozarks — seldom seen on the silver screen combined to make this one of the best movies I've watched this year.
The story of Joe Louis» 1938 bout with Max Schmeling shows how sports can take on a mythic weight.
This gloriously illustrated story of 1840s firefighter Mose Humphreys plays on the events of September 11 but has a mythic power all its own.
INTERVIEWS Nick Harkaway: A Little Bit Quantum / 12 Ada Palmer: Beyond the Exponential Age / 26 MAIN STORIES / 5 2018 Hugo Awards Ballot • 1943 Retro Hugo Awards • ENMU Special Collections Library Update • Vaughn Wins PKD Award • 2017 BSFA Winners • Groff and Miéville Win Guggenheim Fellowships • 2017 Aurealis Awards Winners • 2017 Kitschies Winners • Ditmar Awards Winners THE DATA FILE / 7 2018 Sturgeon Award Finalists • Prometheus Award Finalists • Greer Wins Pulitzer • Neukom Awards Shortlist • Robinson Named Nebula Awards Toastmaster • Charon's Features Named • Rebellion SFF Commissioning Team • Bradbury Studies NEH Grant • Amazing Stories Returns to Print • LeVar Burton Reads • Mythic Delirium Closes • Publishing News • People & Publishing Continues: Media • Workshop News • World Conventions News • Announcements • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Publications Received • Catalogs Received PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8 Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Liz Bourke & Charlotte Cuffe, Thomas Pynchon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesmyn Ward, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Bishop, Tad Williams, and many others SPECIAL FEATURES Commentary: Cory Doctorow: The Engagement - Maximization Presidency / 25 Rainforest Writers Village / 57 Chinese SF New Year Gala / 58 SF in SF with Michael Moorcock / 61 CONVENTIONS 2018 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / 28 2018 Williamson Lectureship / 31 2018 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards / 32 Norwescon 41 / 33 The Outer Dark Symposium / 34 LISTINGS Magazines Received: March / 36 Books Received: March / 37 British Books Received: February / 48 Bestsellers / 50 OBITUARIES / 63 Philip Kerr • Ahmed Khalid Towfik • David Bischoff • Appreciation for Peter Nicholls by Neil Gaiman, John Clute, and Jack Dann EDITORIAL MATTERS / 66 Locus • Visitors • This Issue / NexSTORIES / 5 2018 Hugo Awards Ballot • 1943 Retro Hugo Awards • ENMU Special Collections Library Update • Vaughn Wins PKD Award • 2017 BSFA Winners • Groff and Miéville Win Guggenheim Fellowships • 2017 Aurealis Awards Winners • 2017 Kitschies Winners • Ditmar Awards Winners THE DATA FILE / 7 2018 Sturgeon Award Finalists • Prometheus Award Finalists • Greer Wins Pulitzer • Neukom Awards Shortlist • Robinson Named Nebula Awards Toastmaster • Charon's Features Named • Rebellion SFF Commissioning Team • Bradbury Studies NEH Grant • Amazing Stories Returns to Print • LeVar Burton Reads • Mythic Delirium Closes • Publishing News • People & Publishing Continues: Media • Workshop News • World Conventions News • Announcements • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Publications Received • Catalogs Received PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8 Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Liz Bourke & Charlotte Cuffe, Thomas Pynchon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesmyn Ward, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Bishop, Tad Williams, and many others SPECIAL FEATURES Commentary: Cory Doctorow: The Engagement - Maximization Presidency / 25 Rainforest Writers Village / 57 Chinese SF New Year Gala / 58 SF in SF with Michael Moorcock / 61 CONVENTIONS 2018 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / 28 2018 Williamson Lectureship / 31 2018 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards / 32 Norwescon 41 / 33 The Outer Dark Symposium / 34 LISTINGS Magazines Received: March / 36 Books Received: March / 37 British Books Received: February / 48 Bestsellers / 50 OBITUARIES / 63 Philip Kerr • Ahmed Khalid Towfik • David Bischoff • Appreciation for Peter Nicholls by Neil Gaiman, John Clute, and Jack Dann EDITORIAL MATTERS / 66 Locus • Visitors • This Issue / NexStories Returns to Print • LeVar Burton Reads • Mythic Delirium Closes • Publishing News • People & Publishing Continues: Media • Workshop News • World Conventions News • Announcements • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Publications Received • Catalogs Received PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8 Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Liz Bourke & Charlotte Cuffe, Thomas Pynchon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesmyn Ward, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Bishop, Tad Williams, and many others SPECIAL FEATURES Commentary: Cory Doctorow: The Engagement - Maximization Presidency / 25 Rainforest Writers Village / 57 Chinese SF New Year Gala / 58 SF in SF with Michael Moorcock / 61 CONVENTIONS 2018 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / 28 2018 Williamson Lectureship / 31 2018 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards / 32 Norwescon 41 / 33 The Outer Dark Symposium / 34 LISTINGS Magazines Received: March / 36 Books Received: March / 37 British Books Received: February / 48 Bestsellers / 50 OBITUARIES / 63 Philip Kerr • Ahmed Khalid Towfik • David Bischoff • Appreciation for Peter Nicholls by Neil Gaiman, John Clute, and Jack Dann EDITORIAL MATTERS / 66 Locus • Visitors • This Issue / Next Issue
O'Connor's stories, anything but mythic and bloated, rely not on technology but on ordinary human cruelty.
Guys and Dolls: Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows» classic musical based on Damon Runyon's colorful stories of gamblers, showgirls and mission workers in a mythic New York; 8 p.m. Fridays - Saturdays, through Aug. 2; Bayou City Theatrics, at the Kaleidoscope, 705 Main, Suite B; $ 25 - $ 35; 832-817-8656.
Partially inspired by Angela Carter's collection of short stories «Burning Your Boats,» which reinterprets traditional tales and twists the mundane, you can see the connection as Swoon work combines glimpses of everyday life, legends and variations on mythic themes in her own graceful style.